Becoming fluent takes time, so it’s best to break it up into goals you can achieve.
Tip #1: set yourself some goals
· Learn 30 new words in 30 days (including how to pronounce them) and try to use them in sentences.
· Check your pronunciation of those words in class with your English teacher.
· Have a conversation with a fluent speaker this week.
· Have a conversation with yourself in English.
· Go through your daily routine speaking out loud to yourself.
· Learn to conjugate five irregular verbs this week.
Tip #2: spend a few minutes a day practising
· Make English a part of your everyday life, listening, speaking, reading and writing.
· The internet makes it easy to listen to English videos, songs and documentaries. There is something for every level.
· Switch off the subtitles and try to understand through tone, gestures and context.
· Sing along to songs. Beatles songs and Simon & Garfunkel are very clear. You can look at the words first, then try to remember them, singing them out loud! (Don’t be shy!)
· Stop thinking of the word in Spanish first, but instead think of an object visually, then say it in English.
· And, generally, THINK IN ENGLISH.
